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The Shootist (2011)

by Glendon Swarthout(Favorite Author)

4.09 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0803238231 (ISBN13: 9780803238237)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Bison Books

review 1: A masterpiece of a western. It wasn't voted the best western of all time for no reason. JB Books is an dying gunslinger returning to El Paso to live his final days with cancer. In his last days he must submit to the life that he has led and the impression that other people have of him. How does a man who has killed thirty men face his own death not at the hand of a gun but due to the deterioration of his own body. Masterful.
review 2: Without a doubt one of the best westerns ever written. JB Books is a hero and an outlaw at the same time. The book explores a man who has outlived his time. It is a bittersweet story of an old man passing into history and a young man who wants nothing more than to follow in the old mans step's. In the end he makes the right d... moreecision. The book is full of symbology and is a story of passage for the western frontier from the "wild and wholly west" to a civilized country. less

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